It's been 20 years since the pipe organ at a Door County church has been played, but that will change this weekend.

Many American churches are doing everything they can to attract new generations of parishioners. And often, that means less traditional organ music and Christian hymns. But the organist at the West ...

WEBB CITY, Mo. — Twelve area musicians and speakers will be featured at the Hymn Festival from 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church, Broadway and Ball streets. A feature of the ...

HOWARD LAKE, Minn — At St. John's Lutheran Church in Howard Lake, the 55-year-old organ led the parish in times of joy and hardship. Now it's the parishioners' turn to take care of it. “To build this ...

CANTON − The "Father of Church Music" in Stark County is being feted for nearly 80 years of ministry. Friends and admirers of W. Robert Morrison recently gathered for a party to celebrate Morrison's ...

Late Saturday afternoon, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, was filled to the rafters with music as participants lifted their voices in song in celebration of the centennial anniversary of the ...

"When true simplicity is gained, to bow and to bend we will not be ashamed. To turn, turn will be our delight, till by turning, turning we come round right." From "Simple Gifts" a Shaker Hymn from the ...

James Welch, former organist and carillonneur at UCSB, will return to Santa Barbara to give the dedicatory concert on the new organ at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 7:30 p.m.

For 36 years, the organ played the notes of life at Geneva Presbyterian Church. It provided the musical backdrop at baptisms, weddings and funerals, and for hymns, preludes, offertories and postludes ...

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Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.